Thanks to a tip from a Galaxy Express passenger, I
learned about two science-based time travel romances by Jennette Marie Powell:
TIME'S ENEMY (Saturn
Society #1) and TIME'S
FUGITIVE (Saturn Society #2).
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The information emphasized again for me how important
word-of-mouth is for a niche genre like sci-fi romance. I've been blogging for
longer than the author's books have been out (TIME'S ENEMY originally released
in 2011), but I'm only just now learning about them. And I've blogged
about time travel sci-fi romances on several occasions...
...so you'd think I would have run across them earlier, but nope.
The search for SFR style time travel romances is
especially fraught with difficulty because most time travel romances to date
are supernatural in nature. So readers interested in scientifically based ones
have to do lots of digging.
Marketing, of course, is an issue as well. The
keywords I use to search for SFR time travel romances may differ from how
authors are describing their books (in other words, a Search Engine
Optimization disconnect). The Galaxy Express and even the whole SFR community
may be unknown to some authors who otherwise might reach out to me about their
books. Add up all the obstacles and it's no wonder that years go by before I learn about one title or another. :(
To help rectify the situation, I did a bit of research
and found a few non-spoiler elements about TIME'S ENEMY:
* TIME'S ENEMY has a scientific basis for the time
travel
* The story is apparently told from the hero's POV
* It features a group of time traveler's--the Saturn
Society
* There's lots of plot and action-adventure
* The story features a slow-burn romance
Here are the covers and blurbs for TIME'S ENEMY and
TIME'S FUGITIVE so you can learn more about them!
One unwanted gift. One great wrong. One chance to make
things right…
Tony Solomon never wanted to be a time traveler. But when a freak accident gifts him with the ability to travel in time, he becomes an unwilling initiate in the Saturn Society, a secret society of time travelers. Determined to prevent his daughter’s murder, he violates the Society’s highest law and becomes a fugitive. But the Society refuses to tell Tony how to time-travel within his own life, so he seeks help from Charlotte, the woman whose life he saved during a prior trip to the past.
When Tony arrives in 1933 looking for answers, Charlotte is both thrilled and terrified to see her childhood hero. Loyal to the Society, she is honor-bound to bring to justice those who manipulate time for their own gain. In giving him sanctuary, she faces a terrible choice-condemn the man she loves and to whom she owes her life, or deny her deepest convictions by helping him escape and risk sharing his sentence.
Tony Solomon never wanted to be a time traveler. But when a freak accident gifts him with the ability to travel in time, he becomes an unwilling initiate in the Saturn Society, a secret society of time travelers. Determined to prevent his daughter’s murder, he violates the Society’s highest law and becomes a fugitive. But the Society refuses to tell Tony how to time-travel within his own life, so he seeks help from Charlotte, the woman whose life he saved during a prior trip to the past.
When Tony arrives in 1933 looking for answers, Charlotte is both thrilled and terrified to see her childhood hero. Loyal to the Society, she is honor-bound to bring to justice those who manipulate time for their own gain. In giving him sanctuary, she faces a terrible choice-condemn the man she loves and to whom she owes her life, or deny her deepest convictions by helping him escape and risk sharing his sentence.
A past shrouded in mystery
Violet Sinclair remembers nothing of her life before
the day she awoke several years earlier, drenched in blood that wasn’t hers.
But since she met Tony Solomon, she’s been certain of one thing – sometime in
her hidden past, she knew him… loved him… and did something terrible to him.
A present fraught with danger
A present fraught with danger
Time-traveler Tony Solomon is sure he never met Violet
before they were coworkers, yet she bears an uncanny resemblance to the woman
he loved and lost decades before he was born. After an impulse encounter leaves
Violet pregnant with his child, she becomes the target of killers from the
future.
A future feared in jeopardy
A future feared in jeopardy
Framed for murder, Tony will do anything to protect
Violet and their child, even if their only escape is to jump into the past,
something he swore he’d never do again. But when they jump back much further
than planned, they find their troubles are only beginning—and secrets can get
them killed.
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Happy reading!
Joyfully yours,
Heather